Horse-collar-pad attachment



(No Model.)

E. E. WITHEY.

HORSE COLLAR PAD ATTACHMENT.

No. 375,111. Patented Dec. 20, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERVIN E. WVITHEY, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

HORSE-COLLAR-PAD ATTACH MENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 375,111, dated December 20, 1887.

Application filed April 14, 1857.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERVIN E. WITI-IEY, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and usef ul Improvements in Horse-Collar-Pad Attachments, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the class of horse collanpad attachments which are secured to the pad and grip the front rim of the collar. Such attachments are usually hook-shaped and formed of spring metal, so as to cause them to embrace closely and nearly completely the front rim of the collar. However, in the use of the collar'pads it is found that the tendency of the pads is to slip rearward only, and consequently the aforesaid close and complete embrasure of the collar-rim by the pad-hook is unnecessary; and I therefore do not limit my invention to either an elastic or a rigid hook.

My invention consists in novel means for se curing the said hook to the pad, as hereinafter fully described, and specifically set forth in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of ahorse-collar with a sweat-pad connected thereto by myim proved attachment. Fig. 2 is aview of the rear side of the pad with my improved fastener attached thereto. Fig. 8. is an enlarged detached perspective View ofthe attaching-hook of the pad with the attachingstrap thereof shown in dotted lines; and Fig. i is a transverse section on line y y, Fig. 3.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A denotes the horse-collar formed with the usual front rim, or; and P represents the sweatpad, constructed in the usual form,to be interposed between the collar and shoulders of the horse.

0 represents my improved pad attachment, which consists of a hook formed in one piece with a flatattaching-shank, c, and carried in a plane at right angles to the flat side of said attaching-shank, and of the requisite size and shape to allow it to be easily slipped over the rim a of the collar A, as shown in Fig. 1

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of the drawings. The attaching-shank c, I provide with longitudinal slots 15 t and an intermediate longitudinal bar, d, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, and I secure said shank to the pad P by means of a strap, '6, which I pass through the slots t t at right angles to the shank, so as to bring the central portion of the strap to lie across the intermediate bar, d, on one side of the shank and cause the extremities of the strap to extend in opposite direc tions from the opposite side of the shank, as illustrated by dotted lines in Figs. 3 and 4: of the drawings, the extremities of the strap being secured to the pad P preferably by means of rivets, as represented in Fig. 2 of the drawlugs.

I do not, however, confine myself to the use of the strap e, as it is obvious that the slots tt permit of sewing the shank 0 directly onto the pad P.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. In combination with the horse'collar pad, the book 0, formed in one piece with the flat attaching-shank c and curved in a plane at right angles to the flat side of the shank, and said shank provided with the longitudinal slots t t, substantially as described and shown.

2. In combination with the horse-collar pad, the hook 0, formed in one piece with the flat attaching-shank c and curved in aplane at right angles to the flat side of the shank, and said shank provided with the longitudinal slots t t and intermediate bar, d, and the strap 0, passing transversely through said slot and extending in opposite directions from the shank c and secured to the pad, substantially in the manner described and shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my seal, in the presence of two attesting witnesses, at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, this 11th day of April, 1887.

ERVIN E. VVITHEY. 

